Fein Turbo II Foam Replacement

Recently, for reasons I shall not mention on this hand tools blog, I retrieved my old Fein Turbo II (model 9-55-13) shop vac from storage, where it's been for the last 13 years. It's probably 25 years old now. I mentioned this to a friend in passing and he said "Oh, make sure the sound-deadening foam isn't all falling apart. You'll know it is if you get black foam bits coming out of the exhaust." Well guess what - he was exactly right.The Fein shop vacBits of black foam all over the floorHe said that happened to his Fein Turbo II and he fixed it with new foam. He's a real tech guy and he had laser-cut new foam pieces for his. I don't know how long ago that was, but he still had his drawings and leftover foam, so he laser-cut me a new set of foam pieces. This post is about replacing the sound foam in the vacuum.In the Fein owner's manual, the foam pieces are called the "cover soundproofing", the "side soundproofing", and the "motor soundproofing".Disassembly was straightforward. I'm…